Ian Bull (Elbows Up 🇨🇦)
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Ian Bull (Elbows Up 🇨🇦)
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Software engineer passionate about tools, languages, and simplicity 🦀🚀. I'm not very interesting; I mostly chop wood and carry water. I also help run a youth sports league. https://ianbull.com
That is technically and statistically correct.
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Ain't nobody gonna be making first round exit jokes this year amirite?
January 28, 2026 at 6:31 AM
I don't know, I think some of those conservatives would have no problem "rubbing him the right way".
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Do we need code reviews. I argued that we need "Change Review" not "Code Reviews". That is, we should review the intent (what & why) and not the how.

But then everyone told me this is obvious, this is what we did all along.

So do we need "Code" Reviews?
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 AM
> I'm on my first flight for the year and found time to play with some of these AI coding tools, and I gotta say, this shit has come a long way.

Curious, when was the last flight of last year. This stuff has come a long way in the past 3 weeks!
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Disinterested players, not starting on time, playing down to their competition. Tavares, Willy, Mathews, Riley.... it's been the EXACT SAME STORY FOR TEN YEARS!

After October baseball this year, seeing a team that actually plays for one another, haven't been able to sit through a Leafs game.
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
If Anthropic envisions a word where localized code generation replaces MCP / Tool calls for things like: fetching / transforming / loading data, then a bringing a TypeScript runtime into the fold makes sense.
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
And it wasn't just Erich, it was many of his Team members from the original Eclipse team that wrote VSCode.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, James.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I hate that my young daughter, who absolutely loves watching sports, has to ask me about "Odds", "Lines", "Spreads" and "Futures". There is no reason kids need to be exposed to this just to watch a game.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Most people want Simple solutions, but they end up with Simplistic ones instead.
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Except I was at game 7 in '93, it was a terrible game by Toronto.
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I can handle the leafs losing.

The look on my daughters face right now hits so hard. This sucks.
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
That was hard.

I was downtown Toronto. in '93 as a 17 year old. But it's the look on my daughters face right now that hits the the hardest.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If Boston was in this spot, you'd feel the same way.
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM